Visualization of Mercator distortion
Visualization of Mercator distortion
This is a 5000km circle centered around Paris.
Found here: https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=924622615693114&id=100044361527327&set=a.610868297068549
Top 10 worst circles I've seen in my life.
If you want to play with it yourself and compare countries.
TIL the US and China are about the same size.
“Always” have been. They're at roughly the same latitude.
This is great, thank you for sharing 😂
I believe in Greenland supremacy and none of your "science", "facts" or "topology" will prove me otherwise
Greenland=Bestland
Also Greenland isn't even orange.
There are a few interactive maps you can play round with online. Search for “mercator distortion play” to find one that clicks best with you.
Thank you for this!
We have Tissot's indicatrix to display this kind of distortion, much more universally usable than this random circle. Check wikipedia for examples, scroll down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissot's_indicatrix
That's really crazy!
But even then it looks like Greenland is still larger than Australia. Is that true?
No
The map is just the mercator projection, but it's showing a circle to show how distorted it is. If this was shown on a globe. The circle would look like a circle and greenland would look much smaller
womp womp
People on Twitter would get mad about this every few weeks like clockwork as though it was an intentional conspiracy against Africa (emphasising important places like Greenland) and classroom globes aren’t a thing.